Complete list of 6,364 five-letter words that contain E, all accepted by Wordle. Common words are shown first, followed by the full A–Z list.
Everyday words that are most likely to be a Wordle answer, most common first.
Every word on this page is accepted as a guess in Wordle (it comes from the standard Wordle list of 14,855 five-letter words). Words highlighted in green are on the original Wordle answer list.
There are 6,364 five-letter words that contain E. Every word on this page is accepted as a guess in Wordle (it comes from the standard Wordle list of 14,855 five-letter words).
Where E appears: position 1 in 330 words, position 2 in 1,857, position 3 in 998, position 4 in 2,531 and position 5 in 1,739. It is most often found in position 4. 1,044 of these words contain E more than once, such as THERE, THESE, WHERE.
If Wordle shows a yellow or green E, the answer is one of these 6,364 words. 1,056 of them are on the original Wordle answer list, which is a much smaller set of everyday words; they are highlighted in green in the list above. Examples: THEIR, THERE, OTHER, AFTER, THESE, WHERE.
A strong next guess from this list is LATER: it uses five different letters that appear often in Wordle answers, so it rules out as many words as possible. To combine this with your other green, yellow and grey tiles, use the Wordle Helper.
Using standard Scrabble tile values (before bonus squares), the highest-scoring well-known words here are JERKY (19 points), XEROX (19 points), QUAKE (18 points), QUERY (17 points), HAZEL (17 points). E itself is worth 1 point. To search by the exact tiles on your rack, use the word finder or the anagram solver.